The stuff of nightmares showcases work of Daniel Bell, Sharon Brindle, Ruth Weinberg, and Jemima Brown. The exhibition discusses the dark side of fairytales and is displayed at the front room gallery of the Museum of Childhood. It explores what fairy tales were like before they were sanitised for children, something I'm fascinated with.
The artists who set up the show worked with primary school children to create a line up of children's toys throughout the years that could be possible suspects for the villain in Fundevogel, grimms fairy tale story.
After the line up of creepy characters, there was a section of pencil and ink drawings by the artists. I particularly liked Sharon Brindle's pencil crayon drawings on soft pink paper, she had captured the demonic eyes two twin dolls can have when their eyes have both shifted to a unnatural position. The effect of using a soft pink paper for the main body and using only a light white coloured crayon to rendered the faces gave a great effect of enchantment and reality.
Daniel Bell also attracted my attention as he has created very atmospheric images of the toys that you can find in the museum with only pencil, or graphite. The composition he used in 'Brother' is very effective as he only used half the dolls face in view, which gave a terrifying close up image of the toy which you would not normally see a doll in that way.
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